There we go. Removed the cladding from my factory rims after one shattered in a pothole. Roughed up the aluminum a little then gave each rim 4-5 coats of VHT chassis enamal. Did the lips of each wheel well as well. Then rocker guarded my entire rear wheel well area and as much of the box as i could get at. Eventually i plan on ripping the box off and doing it right. As well as doing some under coating up front

 

There all done. Tommorrow i will hopefully get around to bed lining. At the very least i will be removing the box caps and lining underneath them. I recommend this to everyone as a must do if you keep the box caps. They are a huge rust trap

 

Started doing a retrofit for fun on the side pics as it comes along

 

rims look good. what did you use? I have a set that I am planning on painting soon.

 

Yeah they turned out better than i expected. I roughed em up with 120 grit and i used vht chasiss enamal. I did about 3 light coats to make you sure i got full coverage. Then lai on two heavy ones to make sure any spots i didnt sand well didnt flatten out which they were until i really lai it on. I noticed one or two spots i didnt get 100% but not enough to matter. Stuf seems fairly tough as its meant for application to bare metal on frames, roll bars etc

 

nice thats good to know. thanks for the help. truck looks good.

 

Ya blacking out the rims is a quick cheap head turner. I probably wouldnt have done it if one of my chrome overlays hadnt shattered.

 

Heres a little progression on the retrofit.

 

Guess a small update. Threw gibson performance exhaust on. Thats all for the time being though

 

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